Lydig Construction

Lydig Construction is a Spokane Valley general contractor with offices in Bellevue and Kennewick, and it does a lot of its work through design-build. Campuses, schools, healthcare and housing make up much of the book. Its latest finished job is Vandal Village at the University of Idaho in Moscow, a 451-bed, 240-unit community for graduate students and student families that held its ribbon cutting Oct. 26 after residents moved in during September. Integrus and Design Collective handled architecture, with Gilbane Development and Rocky Mountain Companies as master developers. It’s the kind of housing most land-grant schools talk about and few actually build, and Lydig didn’t let the semester calendar slip.

Three projects give a fair picture of the range. At Jubilant HollisterStier, Lydig added 50,000 square feet for a high-speed fill-finish line running 400 vials a minute and 55 million units a year, with isolator technology, automated weight-checking, three compounding suites and two 300-square-foot lyophilizers. At King County’s South County Recycling and Transfer Station — the county’s first Living Building Challenge project — the work involved 21,000 cubic yards of low-carbon concrete, 32-foot retaining walls and advanced water management. At Seattle’s Lincoln High School it was restoration: modernizing a landmarked campus without losing the craftsmanship that makes it one.

Pharmaceutical fit-out, a Living Building, and a historic school are not the same job, and the thread between them is delivery method rather than building type. Lydig leans hard into design-build and progressive design-build, and its argument for why is more candid than most: new ideas carry risk, and design-build is the framework that lets a team manage that risk through shared responsibility, transparency and early alignment on goals, budget and performance. A retired owner-side client — Kevin Twohig of the Spokane Public Facilities District — is quoted saying the First Interstate Center for the Arts renovation was the best outcome of all his capital projects.

Technology is applied narrowly rather than for show. At the Snohomish County 911 Emergency Communications Center in Everett, VDC laser scans caught clashes early, cutting rework on a facility that cannot afford to be wrong.

With more than 60 years behind it, the company describes itself as community builders focused on facilities that educate, serve and celebrate people, and states a commitment to building diversity in the industry and widening access to opportunity.

Three offices cover the state: Spokane Valley on E Montgomery, Bellevue, and Kennewick. Open bid packages are posted publicly.